The Scythian Mobile Battle Unit "Goliath" are the standard issue combat units used throughout the Scythian Empire. The heavily armoured remote operated battle mecha is used primarily for heavy or urban ground engagements when the Scythian military see no point in entering into bloody entrenched warfare or battles of attrition.

The Goliath is powered by a Ultra Heavy Nuclear Power Generator, which in turn feeds the massive amount of power needed to operate its twin pulse laser carbine rifles, and its right shoulder mounted burst laser cannon.

The pulse laser carbine rifles switch can switch between anti-infantry and anti-vehicle settings, a low microwave roasting setting for infantry, which causes the cells within the living infantry to literally explode, to lethal effect within less than 4 seconds - and an ultra focused setting is used for vehicles, capable of melting most armour, circuitry as well as being capable of causing most volatile materials to explode (for instance, explosives and fuel), which renders most vehicles to molten slag.

The burst laser cannon is a considerably scaled down version of the Burst Cannon mounted on a large portion of Scythian warships, and fills the air with thousands of small laser blasts (not unlike a shotgun) which shred enemy aircraft on contact.

The final offensive weapon of the Goliath is a single shaped charge long range missile - on the same scale as the "Light missiles" mounted on Scythian warships, which it is more than capable of taking out most tanks with ease, or blasting through the wall of a heavily armoured bunker, or - in extreme cases, of punching through the hull of warships for boarding actions.

A lesser part of the Goliath's asenal is the arm mounted grenade launchers, which are usually armed with smoke, flash or chaff grenades to aid its combat versatility, or decoy missiles.

MBT - "Armadillo"

For situations when ground combat really is a necessity, and actual manpower is required - The Armadillo Main Battle Tank is dropped in from orbit.

Like the Goliath, and Armadillo is nuclear powered, which it uses to great advantage with its primary Magnetic accelerated cannon, which launches Sabot style rounds at almost half the speed of light to pierce enemy armour and entrenched bunkers.

Along with this, the Armadillo is also equipped with a multi missile system alongside the Magnetic accelerated cannon on the turret mount, this missile system is capable of launching anti-infantry or vehicle munitions, as well as chaff, flash and smoke bombs.

The Armadillo's last weapon is a secondary turret mount, which has a dual mounted laser system. Unlike other vehicle mounted weapon systems, the Armadillos laser system cannot switch between anti-vehicle and anti-infantry modes, and is set only to anti-infantry capabilities - which it exceeds at.

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In order to remain militarily competitive with other powers, the Scythian Scimitar mecha is powered by a micro nuclear generator and controlled by a fairly simple AI system - its roots are founded in the GX-MPT Grasshopper, which the Scythian forces went to a great deal to replicate.

Unable to re-produce or reverse engineer the hoverdrives in the original, the Scimitar is slower than its original ancestor, and as a result is four rather than three legged to make up for the extra weight and stabilise the design.

The AI operating the Scimitar is reverse engineered from the Grasshoppers original systems, but is unable to reach full sentience, at best operating within a set of combat algorithms that it can over time add new programming too.

Much like the Goliath - the Scimitars soon to be operating partner, the Scimitar has twin laser machine guns, capable of much the same firepower - only in shorter bursts to make up for the smaller reactor size.

It also comes equipped with two wrist mounted missiles, not of the same calibre as the Goliath's, but still most than enough to take out most infantry or light vehicles.

Last but not least, the Scimitar sports a pair of shoulder mounted missile launchers, which fire micro missiles (usually in frag, smoke, chaff and flash variations) over a short range.

The Scythian C-88 (Or Carnivore) Dropship - The primary dropship in use by Scythian forces for over 40 years - is a heavy duty assault ship designed to be launched from Carriers in low orbit with a troop compliment of almost 40 troops (not including the crew) once orbital superiority has been achieved.

It has one pilot/gunner - who operates the dropship itself, and its twin mounted laser cannons - which consist of 6 individual lasers that operate in a continuous fire fashion.

The rest of the crew consists of six gunners, whom mount the separate pintle-mounted laser cannons along the dropships hull for additional fire support.

To stay militarily competitive with the forces of the Assyrians and the Vol - the Scythian forces have started to produce a new arm to its armed forces - the battlefield assault forces - designed to strike hard and fast with blitzkrieg style strategies to keep up with the other star faring empires.

Quite heavily armored for a Hover Cycle design - the Lightstrike is also armed with twin laser weapon systems to gun down opponents, and a twin nuetron pule engine system to keep a high speed and reasonable mobility while cutting down on weight.